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Dr. Lynn Moorhead Riddiford (born 1937; born Lynn V. Moorhead) is an American entomologist and developmental biologist. She was a first female faculty member in the Harvard Biology department, where she served as an assistant and associate professor. She is an emeritus professor at the University of Washington. In 1997, she was the first awardee of the Recognition Award in Insect Physiology, Biochemistry, and Toxicology from the Entomological Society of America. . Riddiford studies the endocrinology of insects, specifically the tobacco hornworm.

Education
In high school, Riddiford became exposed to biological research while spending two summers at the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine. Riddiford attended Radcliffe College on a full scholarship. Her junior year, she joined the Carroll Williams' lab at Harvard, where she began studying juvenile hormone in insects and other animals and plants. This work led to her first major publication in Nature in 1959. She graduated magna cum laude in Biochemical Sciences in 1958. She received her Ph.D. in Biology at Cornell University in 1961 advised by Dr. James Truman.

Career
After her graduate studies, Riddiford returned to Harvard as a postdoctoral fellow in the William's lab at Harvard. She then taught at Wellesley College for two years. She would later become an assistant professor in 1966 and associate professor in the Harvard Biology department. Her lab focused on the endocrinology of the tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta and led to key findings about the interplay of juvenile hormone and molting hormone . In 1979, Riddiford moved to the University of Washington. Also in 1979, Riddiford was awarded the a John Simon Guggenheim fellowship. In 2011, Riddiford was awarded the Vollum Award for Distinguished Accomplishment in Science and Technology from Reed College. In 2013, Riddiford became an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Personal Life
Riddiford married James Truman, her graduate advisor. Riddiford and Truman retired in 2008, and currently live in Virginia where they pursue research full-time at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Farm Research Campus in Ashburn.